Description

Edition 2

Contents

We are at War with Germany – ‘Laughter and Tears of Blaina People’.

A Tredegar Evacuee – Leslie Churchill

Dad’s Army It Was Not! – Peter Morgan Jones

A Wartime Evacuee in Blaina – Donald Percy, an extract from The Rose and The Thorn

Wartime Humour and Tragedy – stories from George Derreck, a Tredegar man now living in Ontario Canada – George Derreck

Mud on a Young Man’s Sleeve, Reminiscences of John Lawrence – Transcribed by Jeff Darkins

William Cecil Proll’s Experiences with the South Wales Borderers in Burma – William Cecil Proll

A Close Encounter with Mahatma Gandhi – Bert Westacott

The Royal Observer Corps 1936-1980 – Norman Griffiths

Wellington Bomber No. T2520 – A. Martin

The Story of Kadim Ali or the boy who got lost twice – Bert Westacott

War Time Memories:

AGPO Engineer – Aneurin Watkins

ATC Cadet – Keith Thomas

Extract from Ebbw Vale at War – Keith Thomas